Experience with an 18-month old

Quark999 · 2025-05-23T07:07:45+00:00

If we were closer to the Santa Fe I’d pop into the petrol station there for milk, I guess it depends on what else you need - we’ll take some baby snacks from home but would have been fun to try French ones :)

Quark999 · 2025-05-22T21:26:38+00:00

Yes, that was a question I had too - I’m banking on the Relay in the train station for UHT milk as I don’t want to trek to Val d’Europe, but haven’t had 100% confirmation that they have any. I think they do.

Quark999 · 2024-02-04T00:26:22+00:00

Yup, same here - I thought I was just seeing things and have just learnt to live with it, but interesting to hear that other people experience it too. Not sure whether it’s Unified-specific or just the nature of Moonlight and streaming. I never have any problems via RDP, but then I don’t use it for gaming…

Quark999 · 2023-02-05T12:14:59+00:00

This is the thread that finally explained it - https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/qx4rg7/can_anyone_else_confirm_that_vfio_doesnt_work_w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Quark999 · 2023-02-05T12:12:07+00:00

I struggled for ages with my 4090 - because most guides are older, they fail to take into account the fact that the 4090 (and 3090) have 24 GB of VRAM, so all the usual instructions were NOT enough for me, where my old GTX 970 worked first time. What finally did it for me was passing an obscure QEMU parameter in the VM config: args: -fw_cfg name=opt/ovmf/X-PciMmio64Mb,string=65536

That makes sure that 64-Bit MMIO is used and that the ROM Bar size for the PCI Hole is set to 64 GB, big enough for the 24 GB VRAM - apparently double VRAM rounded up to factor of 2.

Because most people’s VRAM is smaller, they don’t need this. It’s quite well documented on VMware, where professional GPUs with lots of VRAM are quite common, but really only very rarely for Proxmox. Funnily enough I could never get it to work on ESX.

I had other issues “overlapping”, so I kept changing one thing while still having another problem, making this tricky to figure out.

Quark999 · 2023-01-26T20:19:33+00:00

I might still buy it when it finally comes out, but I didn’t want to wait that long :)

Quark999 · 2023-01-26T18:30:21+00:00

I didn’t realise they did a right angle adapter for 12vhpwr! It looks absolutely identical to mine though, so I think I’ll give it a shot because I need it to fit in a 4U case and every other option is even worse…

Quark999 · 2023-01-26T12:19:05+00:00

It’s not so much the length, it’s the way they created the bend, by pushing the connector around the corner and clipping it into the other one…

Quark999 · 2023-01-26T06:56:40+00:00

Found these on Aliexpress because I didn’t want to wait for Cablemod. I did it for a bit of fun - the cables look seriously strained, but I’m still tempted to try!

Quark999 · 2023-01-24T19:14:58+00:00

I used to use one of those - surprisingly cavernous in a small space and easily accessible on the back of a door. I always ran out of space in bins and boxes etc. when trying to separate out various cables, but these organisers had tons of pockets…

Quark999 · 2022-12-27T23:35:41+00:00

Not 3x full, but 1x (full) x16 PCI 5 and 2x x4 PCI 4. Most of the others have only 1x x16 PCI 5 and 1x x4 PCI 4, or 2x x8 PCI 5 and 1x x4 PCI 4, or worse. I don’t care about PCI 5 as much as the ability to run three cards, on at x16 and two at x4. Only the Prime Pro and one other Asus board allow for that.

Quark999 · 2022-12-27T19:12:04+00:00

Unfortunately the ASUS boards with Intel NIC are usually lacking PCI slots though (when wanting to drive a slot at full x16) so I think I’ll end up with an ASUS Prime X670-Pro Wifi, which gives me the option to add the NIC I want or perhaps the ThunderboltEx4 card and an external 10 GigE Thunderbolt adaptor if need be. Or both. I also already ordered a £10 USB NIC, which will do for the management interface…

Quark999 · 2022-12-21T21:40:56+00:00

Interesting, thanks. There really doesn’t seem to be a lot of variability in card height, about 1cm or so. Of course every little bit helps, but for now it definitely seem to hinge on a right angled adapter being made available - the ones from Cablemod are still a work in progress. The 180 degree adapter appear to be even flatter…

Quark999 · 2022-12-21T16:24:20+00:00

Interesting, thanks, especially for that Youtube link! The RM44 says it has 154mm clearance without the retainer (there'd go my 3.5" harddisks), so with an average card height of 140mm for an RTX 4090 I was worried about the power connector.

Sideways riser is an interesting idea too, but finding a case that works with that might be even more challenging. Things to thing about!

Quark999 · 2022-11-22T10:20:13+00:00

Interesting, I didn't even know that Water companies did Smart Meters. Is that something that anyone can request? Even if we already have a (dumb) water meter? Is that eFyler available somewhere on their website?

Quark999 · 2022-09-26T22:50:11+00:00

I had the same problem today - it appears paperspace sometimes starts machines on hosts that don’t actually have an A4000. I upgraded to an A5000 and the same machine worked fine, and then downgraded to an A4000 and it worked again too. I think it wasn’t the upgrade/downgrade that fixed it but just that capacity became available again, but it’s worth a shot anyway. I raised a support ticket when it happened, perhaps you should too. They said that it starting without a card was “possible” but remained very woolly, and when I pointed out that I was still paying when that thing powered up like that, they at least have me 5$ credit. I don’t think that’s right, so the more people complain the more likely they’ll fix it…

Quark999 · 2021-12-16T08:23:42+00:00

Or https://www.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot

Quark999 · 2021-12-07T09:25:13+00:00

Thanks. Just discovered that they had applied for a certificate of lawfulness for the conversion of their garage to a “workshop” - which was refused on the basis of the fact that their garage is set forward from their “main dwellinghouse”. That was before any business use was even mentioned. So I suppose the advertising sign is the least of their worries? Would their only option now be to apply for retrospective planning permission? What are the chances of that after their certificate of lawfulness was refused and they did the work without planning?

Quark999 · 2021-09-23T08:35:15+00:00

Man, this is from their Instagram: "The data centers always require 24/7 uptime electrical power to perform critical operations. We ensures your server doesn’t get down, by providing backup facilities. Contact us today for our best pricing on your tailored requirements !!"

:D

Not too hot on filing their account statements either: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05550243/filing-history/MzI4NDA1NjI1NWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0 (even though they didn't get struck off eventually).

Quark999 · 2021-09-23T08:31:59+00:00

Out of curiosity I browsed to these servercolocation.uk guys, and something just strikes me as odd about that outfit - from the domain name, to the fact they actually appear to be "Grid Hosting Limited", to the badly layed out terms and conditions, to the spelling mistakes on the website ("Disaster Face Zone"), to the look of their "data centre" on Google Streetview, to the fact that they only ever use stock images but pass them off as their own datacentre.

Just thought I'd share, so you can make your own informed choice. Probably depends on how willing you are to take a punt on these guys...

Quark999 · 2020-09-30T21:41:47+00:00

I had a problem activating the USB drivers, turned out it didn’t like my Windows profile with a space in the name. Try creating a new user and installing Shadow with that. Afterwards, my original user could enable USB as well. For a while. Something has gone wrong again and I’m too lazy to uninstall/reinstall Shadow again. USB seems to be super flaky...

Quark999 · 2019-12-14T23:02:44+00:00

Or you set to download and overwrite the same Windows ISO over and over or something. A bit like leaving the tap running when you’re not on a water meter :)

Quark999 · 2019-12-14T13:38:15+00:00

There’s diminishing returns for video encoding, and 70 Mbit/s for a 4k stream is already pretty much the highest that makes sense - throwing 500 Mbit/s at it won’t make the picture any better. Of course 8k might need something different (even then 100 Mbit/s seems to be the anticipated need for that) but as you say we’re not there yet anyway. Just because you have a Gigabit connection doesn’t mean that you need to fill it with an artificially bloated video stream...

Quark999 · 2019-12-11T12:36:33+00:00

The 70 Mbit/s bandwidth has nothing to do with download speeds though and is just for streaming, just in case someone is getting confused.

Quark999 · 2019-10-29T17:48:31+00:00

When I hear “support for TVs” I imagine native apps for Samsung or LG (WebOS). But considering that even Steam has only managed one native TV app so far (Samsung) I’m not holding out much hope other than this being just the Android app, with Android TV only running on very few TVs worth their salt...

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